Well, it's simple.
You could 90 ten megapixel photos stitched together and then change projections and voilà 1 gigapixel photo.
Similar to the fact that 1 normal photo resized to gigapixel proportions does not make a gigapixel photo except under your definition.
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On Oct 19, 2010, at 7:42 PM, Matthew Rogers <#removed#> wrote:
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> On 19 Oct 2010, at 23:55, Sacha Griffin wrote:
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>> Maybe so, but then you have to accept the fact that a normal gigapixel
>> panoramic is going to be a heckuva lot sharper than a spherical gigapixel
>> panorama, unless you wanna compare 6 cubefaces.
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> So, what does the projection, sharpness or content have to do with simple numbers ? Where not talking about anything other than the number of pixels that make up a gigapixel image. It amazes me that this can even be argued.
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> It's like saying my D700 isn?t really 12mp if I use a crappy non-sharp less but it might actually be 16mp if I use a super sharp Zeiss 85mm lens. Bonkers.
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> Matt
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>> How about instead of trying to create records, people create photos that
>> people like viewing....
>> Heck even 40mp will fill most of a wall...
>> It'd be nice that people would stop wasting time stitching and try waking up
>> earlier to catch the light or camp a scene out for whenever it comes and
>> then stitch a moderately high resolution image that then makes magic or what
>> some people call photography.
>> If a gigapixel scene takes 45 minutes to shoot, you're trying to shoehorn in
>> a whole slew of images that don't match in lighting.
>> Now, until we have easy access to caves or imaxs for viewing full resolution
>> photos, I might care a little more.
>> I'm not even sure their projectors are up to the task.
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>> .end rant
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>> If a gigapixel photo was created in a forest and if no one cared was it
>> really taken?
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: #removed# [mailto:#removed#] On
>> Behalf Of Matthew Rogers
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:27 PM
>> To: #removed#
>> Subject: Re: [PanoToolsNG] What's a Gigapixel?
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>> No it simply is not, a 6mp camera like the D70 has images which are 3000px x
>> 2000px or 6 million pixels hence 6 megapixels. You can look at it anyway you
>> want but a gigapixel image has to be 1,000,000,000 pixels regardless of the
>> projection, crop etc. If the final image doesn't have a billion pixels then
>> it aint a gigapixel image.
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>> I do love how panoramic photographers seem to be addicted to making things
>> more convoluted and more difficult then necessary.
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>> Matt
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